Kells

125 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kells, from 27 m² to 222,507 m² (22.25 ha, 54.98 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 8 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Kells in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 22 Oct 2025Conditional

  Permission for the Following 1) to Demolish Part of Existing House and Existing Sheds 2) to Renovate and Extend Existing House and Use Existing Section of House as a Granny Flat 3) Construct a boat storage shed 4) Decommission Existing Septic Tank and Install an Effluent Treatment Tank and Polishing Filter with Associated Site Works at Kells, Cahersiveen, Co. Kerry

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2560960

• 10 Sept 2025Conditional

  full planning permission to (a) demolish existing old derelict cottage (b) to build a new dwelling house and (c) treatment unit and soil polishing filter and all associated site works

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2560805

• 3 Sept 2024Conditional

  Alexander Dahlberg & Colette O’Connor intend to apply to Kerry County Council for planning permission to (a) demolish rear annex to dwelling (b) alter and renovate existing dwelling, including elevational changes (c) construct an extension to the front/side of dwelling (d) decommission existing foul treatment system and install a septic tank and percolation area (e) all ancillary site works at Kells, Caherciveen, Co. Kerry

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2460653

• 13 Aug 2024Conditional

  To A.) Renovate existing bungalow B.) Demolish existing sheds C.) Construct a two story dwelling building with shop area to the front of the ground floor D.) Decommission existing septic tank and install effluent treatment tank and sand polishing filter E.) Erect external signage F.) Car park spaces G.) Construct storage shed for private domestic use and all associated site works.

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2460546

• 8 Aug 2024Conditional

  (A) Planning permission to demolish the existing shed at side of dwelling house, (B) Planning permission to construct a new living room area to front, side and rear of existing dwelling house with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 24325

• 19 Jun 2024Conditional

  (a) demolition of concrete barges to roofs and chimney to rear, (b) widening of door to front elevation, alteration to window ope to side (west) to form new door and addition of roof light to front roof plane, (c) construction of single storey extension to side (west) and single storey extension to side (east) and front, (d) decommissioning of existing septic tank and installation of mechanical treatment unit and polishing filter and (e) all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2460399

• 12 Oct 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING AND INCORPORATION OF NEW VELUX ROOF LIGHTS TO EXISTING ROOF AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 231040

• 17 Jul 2023Conditional

  Planning permission to construct an extension comprising of an extension to the existing kitchen and 4no. ensuite bedrooms for staff accommodation, to Kells Bay House which is a protected structure (ref. no. KY-070-004), and all associated site services.

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2360042

• 11 Oct 2022Refused

  CONSTRUCT A NEW EXTENSION TO EXISTING BUILDING WHICH IS THE PROTECTED STRUCTURE (REF NO. KY-070-004) KELLS HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 221063

• 29 Aug 2022Conditional

  (A) DEMOLISH EXISTING BUNGALOW AND SHEDS, (B) DECOMMISSION EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND INSTALL EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT AND SAND POLISHING FILTER (C) CONSTRUCT A TWO STOREY BUILDING WITH 2 NO. LIVING QUARTERS ON THE FIRST FLOOR (D) CONSTRUCT A FOUR BEDROOM ENSUITE BED & BREAKFAST WITH KITCHEN AND FUNCTION ROOM ON THE GROUND FLOOR (E) EXTERNAL SIGNAGE (F) CAR PARK SPACES (G) CONSTRUCT STORAGE SHED FOR PRIVATE DOMESIC USE (H) A TAKE AWAY BUSINESS THAT WILL OPERATE SEASONALLY (APRIL-OCTOBER BETWEEN THE HOURS OF 10am - 9pm) AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AT THEIR SITE LOCATED

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 22907

• 21 Jun 2021Conditional

  RE-FURBISH AND RE-ROOF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE INCLUDING THE PROVISION OF ADDITIONAL ROOF LIGHTS TO ATTIC SPACE AND MAKE CHANGES TO THE FRONT, REAR AND SIDE ELEVATIONS BY WAY OF ALTERATIONS TO EXTERNAL DOORS AND WINDOWS. PERMISSION IS ALSO SOUGHT FOR THE INSTALLATION OF A TRICEL WASTEWATER TREATMENT UNIT WITH A PURAFLOW FILTER

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 21668

• 18 Jan 2021Conditional

  (A) BUIILD TWO POLYTUNNELS (B) CONSTRUCT A NURSERY CANOPY WITH SHED/STORE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2124

• 9 Nov 2020Conditional

  A) RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF EXISTING STRUCTURE TO GARDEN CENTRE/TOILETS/RECEPTION AREA/COFFEE SHOP B) RETENTION OF EXISTING STRUCTURE TO BE USED AS A GIFT SHOP C) RETENTION OF BEDROOM AND TOILETS CONNECTED TO PROTECTED STRUCTURE (REF NO KY070-004) KELLS HOUSE. D) RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF STORAGE AND SITE WORKS TO REAR OF KITCHEN AREA CONNECTED TO PROTECTED STURCTURE (REF NO KY070-004) KELLS HOUSE. E) RETENTION OF DWELLING AND PUMPING CHAMBER ON SITE NUMBER 3 PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REG 08/1918. F) RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF DWELLING ON SITE NUMBER 1 PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REG 081918. G) PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A NEW WASTE WATER TREATMENT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORK AND PROVISION OF SERVICES

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 201071

• 15 Sept 2020Refused

  CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE SERVED BY A SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND TO CONSTRUCT AN ACCESS ROAD

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 20836

• 8 Jan 2020Conditional

  (A) RETAIN THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE WITHIN REVISED BOUNDARIES, (B) TO CONSTRUCT A SERIES OF EXTENSIONS TO THE SIDE AND REAR OF THE EXISTING HOUSE, (C) TO DECOMMISSION THE EXISTING WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, (D) INSTALL A NEW WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND (E) ALL ASSOCIATED EXTERNAL WORKS, SERVICING AND LANDSCAPING

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 205

• 17 Sept 2019Conditional

  RENOVATE ALTER AND EXTEND EXISTING HOUSE AND TO REPLACE EXISTING SEPTIC TANK WITH AN EFFLUENT TREATMENT TANK AND SANDCEL POLISHING FILTER

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 19966

• 11 Dec 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A SERIES OF SINGLE STOREY EXTENSIONS TO THE REAR OF THE HOUSE AND TO CARRY OUT INTERNAL ALTERATIONS TO THE EXISTING HOUSE AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND PERMISSION TO DECOMMISSION EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND INSTALL NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 181215

• 23 Oct 2018N/a

  CONSTRUCT A SERIES OF SINGLE STOREY EXTENSIONS TO THE REAR OF THE HOUSE AND TO CARRY OUT INTERAL ALTERATIONS TO THE EXISTING HOUSE AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS ALL

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 181016

• 18 Jul 2018Refused

  CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE SERVED BY AN EFFLUENT TREATMENT TANK AND A SAND POLISHING FILTER

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 18718

• 28 Jun 2018Conditional

  (A) PARTIAL DEMOLITION OF EXISTING SINGLE STOREY DWELLING INCLUDING DEMOLITION OF CHIMNEY STACK, (B) ALTERATIONS TO WINDOWS TO FRONT ( NORTH ) AND REAR ( SOUTH ) ELEVATIONS, (C) CHANGES TO EXISTING ROOF PROFILE INCLUDING ADDITION OF GABLES TO SIDE ( EAST AND WEST ) ELEVATIONS, (D) CONSTRUCTION OF SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO SIDE ( WEST ) AND REAR ( SOUTH ) INCLUDING EXTERNAL PERGOLA TO WEST AND INCORPORATION OF EXISTING DETACHED SHED TO REAR, (E) NEW PACKAGED WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND (F) ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AT HOUSE

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 18641

• 22 Nov 2017Conditional

  RETAIN EXTENSION TO SOUTH OF EXISTING HOUSE, TO RETAIN EXISTING VEHICULAR ENTRANCE AND UTILISE ENTRANCE TO EAST FOR PEDESTRIAN ACCESS ONLY,TORETAIN THE EXISTING DWELLINGHOUSE ON SITE WITHIN REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES, TO CONSTRUCT BATHROOM EXTENSION TO EAST AND CONSERVATORY TO WEST OF EXISTING HOUSE, TO CONSTRUCT A GARAGE BUILDING WITH UTILITY ROOM, TO DECOMMISSION AND REMOVE EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND SOAKAWAY, TO INSTALL A MECHANICAL TREATMENT UNIT, INTERMITTENT FILTER AND POLISHING FILTER AND A NEW SOAKAWAY AND ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 171166

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks and Caragh River Catchment SAC 000365
• Special Protection Area: Iveragh Peninsula SPA 004154
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks And Caragh River Catchment 000365

Recorded monuments

• KE062-002 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Children's Burial Ground: This site is located immediately above a low cliff-edge on the rocky shore of Kells Bay, and affords an extensive outlook to N across Dingle Bay. Triangular in plan, it is delineated at W and S by two drystone walls that measure 36m and 23.5m long, respectively; it is open to the sea at NE. Approximately two hundred uninscribed grave-markers occur in its interior, arranged in at least twenty parallel NE-SW rows. A small marble slab marks the location of a recent cremation burial. As a result of storms in 1989, a pair of parallel drystone walls, 3.2m apart, became exposed in section on the seaward side of the site. Well-faced with a rubble core, they average .9m wide. The W wall has a maximum height of 1.2m. The walls may possibly be identified with the 'old building near a grave', noted at this site in the OSNB (Killinane, 39). There is a vague tradition of rounds formerly being performed at the site on Good Fridays (local information), and the bodies of a number of sailors were reputedly buried here during both World Wars (Sugrue 1993, 24). The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 1021. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 July 2013

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kells.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Radon

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, moderately low (inferred), low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Kells.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

No address of the register names Kells with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Kells · Na Cealla

Area

3,519,922 m² (351.99 ha, 869.79 acres)

Civil parish

Killinane, and its townlands

Barony

Iveragh

Electoral division

Killinane, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Killinane electoral division: 298 people in 121 households; 94% of households own their home; 21% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 25% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cappamore, Gortnagree, Knockaneyouloo, Reacaslagh, Roads

Placenames

Kells on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address; old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.